Improvement in combined sleeve-buttons and lockets



W. C. ALMY.

Combined Sleeve Button and Locket.

No. 126,368, Patented May 7,1872.

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WILLIAM G. ALMY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SLEEVE-BUTTONS AND LOCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,368, dated May 7, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. ALMY, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new article of manufacture, which I term a Combined Sleeve-Button and Locket; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawingmaking apart of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My improvement consists in such a construction of a sleeve-button that one of its faces shall constitute a locket.

In the drawing, Figure l is a view of the article with the locket closed. Fig. 2 represents an end "iew of the same with the locket open; and Fig. 3 is a front view of the interior of the locket.

A represents one of the faces of a sleevebutton, and a the bar which connects it to its fellow face. B corresponds with what in corn mon sleeve-buttons is the outside face; but in this instance it is the lid of a locket, and is hinged at b to the box-shaped portion 0, which is furnished with a glass, or otherwise constituted to receive a miniature or any other article desired to be placed therein. The plate B is also in this instance represented as countersunk to receive a miniature, but the form of the locket is immaterial. it may be of any preferred shape or variety of pattern.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A sleeve-button and hinged locket combined, as a new article of manufacture, sub stantially as described.

XVM. G. ALMY.

Witnesses:

PETER. F. HUGHES, EDWIN G. PIERCE. 

